Adi Whatling

Adi Whatling was appointed Assistant Head (Student Welfare & DSL) in September 2021 and is responsible for the strategic leadership pertaining to student welfare and whole school proactive safeguarding culture, as well as management of the boarding programme, the inter-house competition schedule and chairing charity and catering committees.

Adi joined Millfield in 2008 and has held various leadership roles in both academic and pastoral spheres including Head of Department, Housemaster, Acting Assistant Head (Pastoral) and Educational Visits Coordinator; he was Housemaster of Walton House for six years and has been working as a Boarding Schools Association tutor for the last four years. Adi has been teaching since 2000, working in state schools and colleges in Suffolk and Norfolk before moving into the independent sector. He has a MSc in Sports and Exercise Physiology from the University of Essex.